The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-04
The Bogus Jim Cummings Taken
to His Home i'm Leayen-
worth.
Nineteen Thousand Dollars of
His Express Robbery Booty
Found There.
He Deceived His Own Mother i'm
Order to Secure Her Care
of the Doodle.
He Makes a Full Confession
Which His Mother and Sis
tiers Confederate.

I.eaverworth, Kansas, Dec. 2S.-lnfsr-
nation has Just been received that R"bert
Pinkerton with three other detectives aud
Fred Whitecock arrived in this city to-
night over the Rock Island railroad nom
Chicago 1t is also learned that large
sun of money has been recovered
When the train on the Rock Island
arriving here at S:35 IN. came into the
union depot last night, five men alighted
and keeping close together hurried away
up the street and were soon lost to sight No
particular attention was paid TO them as
there vas in their appearance or conduct
nothing that would attract notice or COM
ment But some one standing on the
platform who saw the party remarked that
one of them looked like Fred WhitecOck.
This was enough to excite the reporters
cHrioSitv and so a representative OF the
Times undertook TO
LOCATE THE QUINTETTE.
no trace OF the party of strangers could be
found Suddenly ii occurred to him TO
shadow the WhitecOck residence on Miami
street, between Second and Third, and so
after being reinforced by another employe
OF the paper, the two went to aplace across
the street from the home OF the White
cocks, where they took stand and made
n survey of the surroundings. All was
quiet in the yard, AMI about the house the
bin : were closed AID drawn and there
was no evidence that anyone was on the
inside except
THE FAINT GLINMER OF A LAMP.
where light shene through one of the
half parted curtains the two reporters then
crossed the street stealthly entered the
ward and advanced up the walk. When
within a few feet of the pOarch voices
were heard in the house speaking In low
{ me there was a momt Mt more Ot intense
listening and then a womans voice ex-
claiming:
"oH FRED"
was heard then ii seemed almost certain
that Fred Whitecock was ut home and
that he had come on the railroad.
(After devoting about six columns in
telling OF the trials of Its repOrtes in Il e
search for information, and an effort to
prove their superiority in keeneSs TO Pink
erton and his detectives, all which consumed
so much time as to utterly preclude the
possibility of the publication of the mat
ter. at o'clock a. m. the report continued
At the very time that these scenes were
transporting, another reporter of the Times
was in the house, but his presence there
wss unknown TO the other two men, and a
still later visit was made to the house.
The Times representative believed there
was much iaore transporting in the little
brick house on Miami street than could be
guessed at.
THE SOBS AND MoANs
of the three ladies could still be plainly
heard as the reporter paced up and down
the walk, and at last lie made up his mind
10 make one grand assault upon the house.
The detective was still obdurate, but this
time the Times man boldly forced himself
into the room, and such a scene among the
verigated experiences of the newspaper
man lad never met his gaze before, stand
ing erect in the room was
THE FORM OF FRED wHIT1CoCK,
his face picture of despair, convulsively
working his hands, tears streaming dewn
his Cheeks and kindly carressing the white
locks of his mother, and bidding his sis
tiers 10 keep quiet, but with arms entwin-
ed about his neck, body and legs, the three
who locked upon him as their idol, beg
ged him to stay with them, TO tell them
all and above ali things to swear to the
God above that his reported marriage to
the Moore woman was false. To this he
replied that his reported marriage was a
lie and that there was not a word of truth
10 the story. Itwas
A NARROWING SPECTACLE,
Calculated to move the stoutest heart.
But Robert Pinkerton stood unmOved and
iealously watched them as they carressed
the son and brother aud bemOaned his sad
| fate, thus proving that the coil of evidence
had so frightened about the the one that
escape was impossible. Fearing that the
detectives and their prisoner might take a
train early in the morning and leave the
city, a watch was kept closely on the house
until 1870 o'clock when the FIVE men
came out of the house. When
satisfied that every thing was all right
and their prisoner secured, without speak
ing a word they came out Upon the side
wald and started eastward on Main street
travelling at an ordinary gait and acting
like a party of men on their way home
| from a meeting or an entertainment, when
they reached the esplanade they turned
and went s"nth, stopping in front Of the
Planters house where they whispered a
few words among themselves ard then went
up the steps into the hotel. The leader
of The party advanced toward the register
the others waiting about the Office, anC
wrote
/ r. J. ALLEN AND POUR.
The clerk then assigned them to room No
80, TO which they were taken q. once
Soon after the member OF the party wht
acted as chief, came down stairs and wen
out of the hotel and TO the Times Office
OF course the ONLY subject sDJkeu of wa